The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Harrogate Grammar School

URN 136497 · Secondary · Academy converter · North Yorkshire

Arthurs Avenue, Harrogate, HG2 0DZ

Figures current as of 5 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Year 7, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 378 families named Harrogate Grammar School as their first preference, and the school made 281 offers.

That is 1.35 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 88% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 88% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.27 in 2021–2022 and 1.31 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 378 884 281 1.35
2024 369 882 288 1.28
2023 400 882 279 1.43
2022 341 749 280 1.22
2021 367 862 279 1.32
2020 321 765 287 1.12
2019 340 775 282 1.21
2018 340 776 282 1.21
2017 337 770 286 1.18
2016 379 797 283 1.34
2015 338 714 283 1.19
2014 372 739 254 1.46

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted inspections from 2022 to 202620222026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 14 April 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard

Achievement: Strong standard

Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard

Sixth form / post-16: Strong standard

Leadership and governance: Expected standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 9 March 2022

Overall effectiveness: Outstanding

Quality of education: Outstanding

Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding

Personal development: Outstanding

Leadership and management: Outstanding

Early years: 9

Sixth form / post-16: Outstanding

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 56.60 - 85.1% 55.7%
2023/24 56.10 0.44
likely between 0.27 and 0.61		 81.9% 54.5%
2022/23 57.00 0.48
likely between 0.30 and 0.65		 86.3% 59.2%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 111.7 97.3 4.8 9.6 12.9%
2023/24 112.5 96.7 6.4 9.4 14.0%
2022/23 116.2 95.4 9.6 11.2 17.9%
2021/22 107.6 95.0 8.7 3.9 11.7%
2020/21 100.3 93.9 2.0 4.4 6.4%
2019/20 101.9 89.0 4.8 8.1 12.7%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

North Yorkshire publishes an admission zone for this school (Rossett School & Harrogate Grammar School & Harrogate High School Rural area).

Covers: 797 live postcodes across 312.866 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Harrogate High School and Rossett School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

26 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Shared with: Harrogate High School, Rossett School. The council publishes one area for these schools together, so the same streets belong to all of them.

The school building sits outside this area. Sometimes that is normal, because the area is drawn around the streets a school serves rather than around the school itself. But it can also mean the area has been joined to the wrong school. Treat it with care.

North Yorkshire publishes an admission zone for this school (Rossett School & Harrogate Grammar School & Harrogate High School Town area).

Covers: 1,924 live postcodes across 37.170 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Harrogate High School and Rossett School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

11 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Shared with: Harrogate High School, Rossett School. The council publishes one area for these schools together, so the same streets belong to all of them.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Harrogate Grammar School. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Harrogate Grammar School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.